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The records in this collection include deeds, blueprints, insurance contracts, liens, and other papers relating to the different mills operated by the company.

Arrangement This collection consists of four series arranged across 12 boxes. Series 1: Audits and Correspondence (Boxes 1-2)     Audits (1947-1952, 1954). Chronological.     Correspondence (1937-1960). Alphabetically by correspondent and then chronologically. Series 2: Financial Records, 1928-1961 (Boxes 3-10)     Sub-series 1 - Daily Operations. Alphabetical or chronological depending on the...

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This collection covers a portion of the business records of the Frost-Johnson Lumber Company.

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Six volumes 1907-1975, of minute books of the Board of Directors

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Most of the collection consists of routine correspondence for both John B. McGee, chief clerk at Deweyville mill and Cecil Smith, manager of the Deweyville mill for the year 1940, as well as others. There are also pamphlets, applications, inventories, lists and miscellaneous business records.

Content Description

The Pickering Lumber Company Collection mostly contains documents pertaining to East Texas and Western Louisiana. The collection contains land surveys, business correspondence, oil and gas lease records, ledgers, and maps. The collection contains 18 boxes of documents, records and correspondance, 5 boxes of dismantled and intact ledgers, and 52 maps.

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The collection consists of research notes, unpublished manuscripts and a large collection of the newspaper articles Block wrote for the 'Beaumont Enterprise between 1998 and 2004. The collection also has the manuscript pages by chapter for 'Mill Towns and Ghost Towns of East Texas', which contains information about mill towns, sawmills, tram roads, and logging camps relating to East Texas lumbering towns.